Science

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  • utopian1

    • science or religion + politics = mind control..yurimon
    • nah just religionutopian
    • Religion is for peeps that can not think for themselves.utopian
    • religion and science can be used for mind control. Or any ideologyyurimon
    • look at the whole global warming fiasco, perfect example. agenda 21 n green fascism. look at ityurimon
    • you think global warming is propaganda? dude, it's pure science, and religion offers NOTHING on the subjectmonospaced
    • The argument against global warming is more twisted and complex than the scientific reality of global warming.IRNlun6
    • yeah, but the twist of the issue is agenda based politics,yurimon
  • GeorgesIV0

    This thread is triggering some repressed memories
    can the mods ban it,
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    for science...

    • this is how we flush out the dumbmoldero
  • Morning_star0

    When science first developed in the West, it thought of itself merely as a tool to explore the natural world. It did not pour scorn upon religion; indeed, scientists were overwhelmingly religious believers (as many still are).
    Science should essentially takes us wherever the evidence leads. In modern times, however, science has given rise to 'scientism', the belief that science can answer all the questions of human existence. This is not so.
    For instance, Science cannot explain the origin of the universe. Yet it now presumes to do so and as a result it has descended into irrationality.
    There is no evidence for this whatever and no logic to it. After all, if people say God could not have created the universe because this gives rise to the question "Who created God?", it follows that if scientists say the universe started with a big bang, this prompts the further question "What created the bang?"
    As a result of such arrogance, the West - the crucible of reason - is turning the clock back to a pre-modern age of obscurantism, dogma and secular witch-hunts.
    Far from upholding reason, science itself has become unreasonable.

    • Religion is utter cock but science will I eventually merge with spirituality as we understand more about it
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    • There may be some truth in that.Morning_star
    • I think so
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  • detritus0

    Who gives a fuck, seriously?

    This is a nonalogue that goes nowhere other than confirming and entrenching various proponents' existant beliefs; it is a nonalogue tha the vast sway of vested parties don't give a fuck about, so why bother?

    Your assertion that the Western 'crucible of science' (such vacuous bilge!) is in reverse or decline is not in any shape or form supported by external actualities, so quite what you're hoping to achieve here with your broadband transmission of your narrow band perspective, I don't know.

    Shut up, all of you.

  • Morning_star0

    'Who gives a fuck, seriously?'

    You, quite evidently.

  • detritus0

    No, I really don't — I'm just fed up with reading crap like yours which asserts bullshit derived by your own presupposition.

    Leave the US sometime, you'll realise the majority of the civilised world manages to reconcile science and belief, and where not, the respective parties shut up and mind their own business.

    None of you — nor I — are going to achieve anything by bleating into the void on an ostensibly graphics design forum.

  • Morning_star0

    - Yes, you really do.
    - No one is making you read this
    - What am I presupposing?
    - I don't live in the US
    - The amount of graphic design discussed around here is at best 25% of the conversation. I'd guess it's a lot lower, just look at the threads.

    • I came here to read about science. strange that, i know.detritus
    • Not Graphic Design? Surely you'll achieve nothing by reading science on a graphic deign forum.Morning_star
    • please note thread title.detritus
    • I'm not the one posting moronic memes like one at the top of this page.Morning_star
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  • inteliboy0

    I'm with detritus. Come here to see interesting science news, get bogged down with boring backwards commentary and memes on religion vs science. Seriously fuck off with that brain numbing nonsense.

    • FYI, this thread topic is about how Science isn't a belief system.monospaced
    • though I guess that's the power of a troll like yurimon.inteliboy
    • yeah true, my bad. i dunno. point still stands.inteliboy
    • wordmonospaced
    • the first post in this thread is unfortunate. let it be a SCIENCE thread. the rest can go in the awful 'religion' thread.sarahfailin
    • unfortunate or not, this thread is exactly about debating it being a belief system. Sorrymonospaced
  • rabbit0

    thats fucked up

  • monospaced0

    If you want "interesting science news," go to the Science of the Day thread. My understanding, based on the history and original post content, is that this thread is for discussing whether science is a belief system or not (it's not).

    • It is ; )Morning_star
    • nope, it's just a method of figuring things out, the only onemonospaced
    • I know where you are coming from. I do understand that the definition of 'science' is essentially a process of investigation to establish the truth or otherwise of a hypothesis. However, the common understanding of what 'science' is, is evolving. Due to the agenda of fundamental atheists like Dawkins/Krauss 'science' has been promoted as the opposite position to that of religion/faith. And that is what i have a problem with. It's essentially a false dichotomy.Morning_star
    • investigation to establish the truth or otherwise of a hypothesis. However, the common understanding of what 'science' is, is evolving. Due to the agenda of fundamental atheists like Dawkins/Krauss 'science' has been promoted as the opposite position to that of religion/faith. And that is what i have a problem with. It's essentially a false dichotomy.Morning_star
    • 'science' is, is evolving. Due to the agenda of fundamental atheists like Dawkins/Krauss 'science' has been promoted as the opposite position to that of religion/faith. And that is what i have a problem with. It's essentially a false dichotomy.Morning_star
    • the opposite position to that of religion/faith. And that is what i have a problem with. It's essentially a false dichotomy.Morning_star
    • that's mostly in reaction to fundamentalists trying to attack science educationmonospaced
    • but it is the fundamentalists themselves that are fucking up science, not the scientists themselvesmonospaced
  • inteliboy0

    Sorry yea you're right. Had it dog eared. I'll try to remember to avoid this thread, though will no doubt forget, and complain again.

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    This is well worth a watch...

  • utopian0

    • Really. We can't see it....We don't know what it is...It's invisible... It's wishy washy speculation dressed up as science fact. There's more evidence for bigfoot FFSMorning_star
    • evidence for Bigfoot FFSMorning_star
    • But it's there, regardless of if we can define it completely.monospaced
    • There is no 'IT'. 'IT' isn't there, its gravitational effect can be measured but there is no 'IT'. Whatever DM is, it doesn't fall in to the Standard Model and is arguably non-material.Morning_star
    • to the Standard Model and is arguably non-material. At that point your materialist scientists invent extra dimensions.Morning_star
    • Can't see it, or prove it but believe it. Where have I heard that before? :)ETM
    • ha, you guisemonospaced
    • Morningstar, how would you like it if people dismissed design or whatever you do for a living without understanding a thing about it?ukit2
  • yurimon0

    http://phys.org/news/2014-07-cro…

    New study shows how existing cropland could feed billions more

  • ukit20


    • watched this this morning- quite good! dark matter, LHC, WOMEN physicist laureates! wow.sarahfailin
  • Morning_star0

    4:41 to 6:18 Lawrence Krauss says nothing different to what I'm saying.

  • ukit20

    Oregon geologist says Curiosity's images show Earth-like soils on Mars

    http://uonews.uoregon.edu/archiv…

  • yurimon0

    http://rt.com/news/174092-electr…

    Bacteria discovered that exist on pure energy